Bathrooms are the most purely functional spaces in a home, rooms where business is taken care of, and that’s pretty much it. Above all else, bathrooms and everything in them have to work. That said, we do spend between 2 and 3 years of our lives, all told, in the...

The decision to redo a floor is a big one. The financial costs are, of course, significant. The convenience costs are hard to put a number to, depending on factors like the scope of the project, the impact on daily life due to loss of use of the spaces being redone,...